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# Tagging capability
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Tagging is the act of assigning metadata to the different resources in your AWS environment for a variety of purposes, such as Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), Cloud Financial Management, and automation (such as patching for select* tagged* instances). Tagging can also be used to create new resource constructs for visibility or control (such as grouping together resources that make up a micro-service, application, or workload). Tagging is fundamental to providing enterprise-level visibility and control.

 

 **Stakeholders:** 
+  Central IT (Primary) 
+  Finance 
+  Security 
+  Software Engineering 

 **Personas: ** 
+  **Cloud Team** - the team(s) who make cloud available to customers. 
+  **Security Team** - the members of the cloud team responsible for security in AWS. 
+  **Finance Team** - the members of the finance team responsible for reporting, allocating, and forecasting cloud costs. 
+  **Customer** - entity within the company that consumes the logs stored within the log storage. 

 **Supporting capabilities:** [Identity Management and Access Control capability](identity-management-access-control-capability.md) 

 **Scenarios:** 
+ **CF23 - S1: Tag definition and assignment**
+ **CF23 - S2: Tag compliance**
+ **CF23 - S3: Tag usage**

Topics
+ [Overview](tagging-overview.md)
+ [Choosing tags for your environment](choosing-tags.md)
+ [Tagging standards](tagging-standards.md)